No, sorry, but your accent sucks.

[Berserker119]

That guy Salvatore on the latest season of Hell's Kitchen. No. Just... No.

He was actually Italian or whatever...

For me, it's Mario.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

I hate the Dutch accent. No no, hear me out. I just know that any Dutchman/woman can speak English perfectly. It's not so hard compared to Dutch, really. But sometimes you hear that thick accent: 'Hauw ahr yoo doowing.' I just want to grab that person and repeat the line in the correct way. If he/she repeats it in the wrong way, it's slapping time!

There's a book made out of all the wrong sentences made by politicians in The Netherlands. It's called: 'I always get my sin.' (Okay, I'll explain the title *sigh*.) Getting what you want is translated as: 'Je zin krijgen.' So if you want to say: "I always get what I want!" in Dutch, you'll say: 'Ik krijg altijd mijn zin!'

Of course you can make mistakes in a language. But replacing 'zin' with 'sin' because you think it's the same. You are WRONG, good sir/madam.

I like this one: "We have to suck another lid." (We need to find another member.) Being a member of something is translated as: "Lid zijn van iets." And searching is: "Zoeken." But thinking it sounds like 'sucking' and forgetting what 'lid' has to be in English. Yeah, awkward moment.

Could be true for the older generations of Dutchmen, but people around their mid 30's and lower tend to talk English quite good. True when we talk English it's quite clinical or maybe posh (without any specific extra accent, like cockney for example).
A week ago I met an Englishman that didn't know I didn't come from England untill I started to talk fluently Dutch to another Dutchman.

 

[Tossth Esalad]

The absolutely horrid danish accent that, more or less, every primeminister has.

Just sends chills down my spine...

 

[cptn ricardo]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

You are right to assume the reverse is likely; the British hate "aluminum" just as much as you hate aluminium. To me it sounds dopey. I don't have any particular feeling on "garage" though - I've pronounced it both ways, and am still uncertain which is which.

It's aluminium! Can I ask, why do American spellings omit vowels? Such as in colour and honour. They remove the u. Why is that? (genuine question)

Edit: I can't stand the Geordie accent.

 

[TheZapper]

Little jacob mon. He's nearly impossible to understand.

That accent was the sole reason I started using subtitles for GTA4.

It's fairly accurate though, I've actually known Jamaicans who sound like that.

 

[Something Amyss]

Stephen Hawking is British yet he talks with that silly fake American accent. What a poseur.

I'm so going to Hell for laughing at that.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

I hate it every time actors have to put on horribly fake accents when their "native" language is anything but English and they speak with the grammar of their "native" language (e.g. a Japanese character who constantly misprounounces l's with r's).

Would it be racist to start demanding that foreign characters be able to speak perfect English so as to not torture my ears? I've nothing against the languages, it's the accents that pollute their vocabulary when they try to speak English which at many points confuse me and renders dialogue difficult.

 

[Burningsok]

Little jacob mon. He's nearly impossible to understand.

Jesus you got that right, How the hell does Niko even understand him.

 

[Folio]

I hate the Dutch accent. No no, hear me out. I just know that any Dutchman/woman can speak English perfectly. It's not so hard compared to Dutch, really. But sometimes you hear that thick accent: 'Hauw ahr yoo doowing.' I just want to grab that person and repeat the line in the correct way. If he/she repeats it in the wrong way, it's slapping time!

There's a book made out of all the wrong sentences made by politicians in The Netherlands. It's called: 'I always get my sin.' (Okay, I'll explain the title *sigh*.) Getting what you want is translated as: 'Je zin krijgen.' So if you want to say: "I always get what I want!" in Dutch, you'll say: 'Ik krijg altijd mijn zin!'

Of course you can make mistakes in a language. But replacing 'zin' with 'sin' because you think it's the same. You are WRONG, good sir/madam.

I like this one: "We have to suck another lid." (We need to find another member.) Being a member of something is translated as: "Lid zijn van iets." And searching is: "Zoeken." But thinking it sounds like 'sucking' and forgetting what 'lid' has to be in English. Yeah, awkward moment.

Could be true for the older generations of Dutchmen, but people around their mid 30's and lower tend to talk English quite good. True when we talk English it's quite clinical or maybe posh (without any specific extra accent, like cockney for example).
A week ago I met an Englishman that didn't know I didn't come from England untill I started to talk fluently Dutch to another Dutchman.

Ah yes, the confusion. Below mid 30's, you say? Is it because we watched english shows when we were kids? What do you think about the dubbing of all the cartoons in The Netherlands? Even the real life shows?

It's stupid if you ask me.

 

[TenSecondHero]

American drawl. Don't get me wrong, the American accent from certain parts of America is fine, but the high pitched, drawn out American makes me want to hurt people.

Liverpudlian and Cockney annoy the hell out of me as well, apart from when Michael Caine does it for some peculiar reason...

I'm just glad I live in a central part of England with a middle class English accent, it's neither upper class nor gutter trash, however most people struggle to place my accent.

The 'aluminum' thing bugs me as well, in fact, Chrome is flagging it as a spelling mistake...

 

[reg42]

You shouldn't include native accents, because people will just get pissed at that.

That being said, it's actually embarrassing for me to listen to someone foreign try to do a South African accents; they're all crap.

 

[TenSecondHero]

I'm sure none of us that have mentioned native accents mean to offend people, it's not a 'your accent annoys me, therefore I hate you' thing, I have plenty of American friends who tell me I don't speak 'properly' because I pronounce everything the English way. It's just one of those things where we all dig at each other for kicks. I have a couple of Cockney friends who call me a 'posh spaz' (Peep Show reference) because of my accent.

 

[General_Cody]

Living in southern Houston many of us down here have avoided that stereotypical Southern American accent, and most people with accents are foreign. The most annoying thing I've heard thus far are fake Mexican accents.

Since Mexico is so close, Hispanics are very common, and Spanish is often the second language here. It's pretty annoying when some high school Spanish student comes around badly rolling every r and stressing every i, trying to emulate the accent.

 

[omega 616]

Does it have to be in game? 'cos there only seems to be like 3 or 4 and 2 or 3 there only in for comedy reasons. Like the stock one is American then you might have like one really thick Irish guy trowing all the generalizations and stereotypes in (drunk etc).

In real life though I can type it and you will know the accent, ready?

"Like, oh my gawd! That is like so totally awesome! It's like so cute and fabulous, I have to have one!". no, it's not. it's a rat in a bag!

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

In short, what is the worst accent you have ever heard? Whether it was actually a native accent or a fake one, whose accent has ticked you off the most in the media?

I hate the lead characters from The Saboteur and Just Cause. They both seem painfully fake and irritate the hell out of me.

Opinions?

The heaviest accent ever is youtube user electricalbeast: http://www.youtube.com/user/electricalbeast
I can't believe how British he is.

 

[Blind Sight]

I think I got a new one...I hate it when movies that are based off of historical facts take the native language and replace it with some English with a completely incorrect accent. The best examples of this are in Enemy at the Gates, where almost every Russian has an English accent, and Valkyrie, which showed how non-nationally biased it was when the evil Germans had German accents, the 'good' Germans had English accents, and the big German hero was American.

 

[Miumaru]

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

Hearing the british version of many words annoys me like mad. (Yes, I realize the reverse is likely too)
Garage for one. Also Aluminum, which over there is Alumin-i-um. That extra syllable irks me.

You are right to assume the reverse is likely; the British hate "aluminum" just as much as you hate aluminium. To me it sounds dopey. I don't have any particular feeling on "garage" though - I've pronounced it both ways, and am still uncertain which is which.

It's aluminium! Can I ask, why do American spellings omit vowels? Such as in colour and honour. They remove the u. Why is that? (genuine question)

Edit: I can't stand the Geordie accent.

I didn't decide on this. I dont know why. Maybe at some point the ium annoyed them as it does me and decided to change it. Plus color looks better like that than with the u.

 

[lacktheknack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4KzClb1C4
wait ..... Wtf

Sadly, that's his real voice.

I'm sorry.

 

[Tinneh]

The worst accent I have ever heard was this one


normally I don't hate anyone for their accent but for some reason I just plain hate that girls voice. In another case I was somewhat entertained a few years ago when a Frenchman was visiting and made fun of my mother for the accent she sported (Pacific northwest American if you want to know) when she was speaking English. It was one of those "Do you really have the right to make fun of anyone's accent right now Mr. Peppe le Pew?" moments.

I hate every single talk show ever made. The host (especially this guy) always seems like a total dick.

Also, Cockney English accents make me want to eat squirrels.

 

[dlawnro]

Well I'm Canadian and usually cannot tell if an Irish is very poor or spot on. Out of curiosity is the main character in Burn Notice any good at an Irish accent? In the show he does alot of different accents and I think his Southern one is pretty good.

I though it was good when I saw it...but just in reading this I've realized there are so many different English and Irish accents that I really have no idea anymore. But in general, his accents and characters are totally awesome, so I don't think it would be a stretch to say so.
Also, I think the reason so many Americans assume there are only one or two English accents and interchange Irish and Scottish is that for the most part, we think of accents as populating a very large area. For us, accents are usually local to a state, region of several states, or certain parts of various states. For instance, here in California, we tend to think of the South and New England as having their own specific accents. We generally group accents into large geographic accents because learning every single accent in our country would take forever. Therefore, when we see a place like England or Ireland, countries the size of our states, we generally only take the time to identify one or two accents in that region and assume that such a small geographic area must only have a few different accents.
OT: I hate the sort of urban bastardization-of-the-English-language accent